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Post by Post-St. Patty's Day Bloat on Sept 10, 2018 11:57:01 GMT -5
Reviving this zombie thread just to say the Amazon Prime has the Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves - Extended Cut that, according to the listed runtimes, is one minute shorter than the theatrical release. I'm pretty sure I don't have the free time to watch both and track the differences, but than again... Anything that makes this terrible, terrible film shorter is only a good thing. Alan Rickman is practically incandescent but even that most Rickman-y of Rickman performances doesn't make this worth watching. Costner is rarely worse (maybe Waterworld, which is also shit, but that's about it), Morgan Freeman is in perfect Magic Negro stereotype, and perhaps unsurprisingly Mike "Whose Line Is It Anyway" McShane is better at improv than acting (a generous description). I could (and will) go on. Who on Earth thought Christian Slater, of all people, should be Will Scarlett? It's an odd choice, but there's many odd choices here. Sure, casting The Most Famous Scottish Actor Of All Time(tm) as The Most English King Of All Time is amusing as a four-second long gag, but it's not worth sitting through this dreck for. Even BRIAN BLESSED barely registers, which is some achievement. The direction is flat, uninspired and dreary. The whole thing is miserable. It's an origin story (it's fucking Robin Hood! Of all the characters in literature, myth and legend you do not need an origin story for surely it's Robin Hood!). If Robin Hood is the prince of thieves, who's the king? Men In Tights is a wobbly movie, but the one thing it unquestionably lands is, "I have one advantage over all the other Robin Hoods. I'm actually English!" (paraphrasing). And that song. That fucking song. For years my musical nemesis, it is utterly without a redeeming feature, a reason to exist or a single moment when it is anything other than execrable. Like the movie is appears in. In short, I am not a fan of this movie. This has been your weekly unprompted Prole Hole rant. Normal service may now resume. I don't know what it says about me that I now want to rewatch the movie for the first time in 25 years after reading that.
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Post by Hachiman on Sept 11, 2018 20:57:01 GMT -5
Reviving this zombie thread just to say the Amazon Prime has the Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves - Extended Cut that, according to the listed runtimes, is one minute shorter than the theatrical release. I'm pretty sure I don't have the free time to watch both and track the differences, but than again... Anything that makes this terrible, terrible film shorter is only a good thing. Alan Rickman is practically incandescent but even that most Rickman-y of Rickman performances doesn't make this worth watching. Costner is rarely worse (maybe Waterworld, which is also shit, but that's about it), Morgan Freeman is in perfect Magic Negro stereotype, and perhaps unsurprisingly Mike "Whose Line Is It Anyway" McShane is better at improv than acting (a generous description). I could (and will) go on. Who on Earth thought Christian Slater, of all people, should be Will Scarlett? It's an odd choice, but there's many odd choices here. Sure, casting The Most Famous Scottish Actor Of All Time(tm) as The Most English King Of All Time is amusing as a four-second long gag, but it's not worth sitting through this dreck for. Even BRIAN BLESSED barely registers, which is some achievement. The direction is flat, uninspired and dreary. The whole thing is miserable. It's an origin story (it's fucking Robin Hood! Of all the characters in literature, myth and legend you do not need an origin story for surely it's Robin Hood!). If Robin Hood is the prince of thieves, who's the king? Men In Tights is a wobbly movie, but the one thing it unquestionably lands is, "I have one advantage over all the other Robin Hoods. I'm actually English!" (paraphrasing). And that song. That fucking song. For years my musical nemesis, it is utterly without a redeeming feature, a reason to exist or a single moment when it is anything other than execrable. Like the movie is appears in. In short, I am not a fan of this movie. This has been your weekly unprompted Prole Hole rant. Normal service may now resume. "We're men! We're men in tights! We run around the forest looking for fights!" I really had high hopes for the Ridley Scott Robin Hood, but Men in Tights is still the best modern version for nailing the spirit of a Robin Hood movie.
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Post by Prole Hole on Sept 12, 2018 1:26:52 GMT -5
At least Men In Tights is actually fun, something all the other modern versions seem to forget to be.
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